Project Remedies Inc. Announces New Relationship With immixGroup

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. - March 31, 2015 - PRLog -- Project Remedies Inc. (PRI) announces it is now partnering with immixGroup to provide its innovative and adaptive Remedy-based project portfolio management system, ActionProgram Manager Plus™ (APM Plus), as well as its Cyber Action Suite™ (CAS) to the federal government.

Stan Feinstein, President of Project Remedies Inc. (PRI), “Success in the current federal marketplace requires the kinds of adaptive partnering arrangements and range of contract vehicles immixGroup brings to the table. We are excited to work with such an innovative and experienced partner.”

The federal market has a critical need for an integrated project portfolio / project management system that brings adaptability, resource management and metrics granularity to the full range of projects, from fixes to full-blown multi-year projects. Project Remedies’ flagship product, ActionProgram Manager Plus™, utilizes the BMC Action Request System to aggregate, prioritize and automatically build project plans for any size of project. ActionProgram Manager Plus™ also tasks staff and statuses these projects into one location with near real-time performance metrics. Feinstein pointed out that, “Lots of really good technologies provide insights into the status of the IT infrastructure, but few are focused on the nuts and bolts of managing the fixes and projects needed to keep the Enterprise going using consistent, repeatable and cost effective work processes.”

PRI’s new Cyber Action Suite™ takes this capability and provides a cybersecurity-focused capability to manage cyber remediation based on NIST’s Special Publication 800-63 on Incident Handling. Feinstein continued: “Most remediation response efforts are managed as a ‘punch lists’ of actions, with lots disjointed project management efforts behind the scenes. Little effort is spent on tracking the people resources doing the work. Cyber Action Suite™ simplifies the management of Cybersecurity events and incidents by providing standardized remediation project plans, real-time insight into the staff available to work on each task, as well as visibility into the status and cost of each task and project.”

“Managing incident response is a critical requirement of the new Federal Cybersecurity Framework, which provides Cybersecurity guidance for the government, as well as the public and private sector IT. Cyber Action Suite™ facilitates real-time knowledge sharing between fix teams and managers with recommendations for system policy changes, threat signatures, issues and fixes.”

“Project Performance data can be integrated and provide near real-time reporting into the agency’s financial reporting system so IT Project and Cyber Remediation costs can be managed and cost-justified, which is critical in today’s budget constraints.”

PRI’ s ActionProgram Manager Plus™ and Cyber Action Suite™ use the BMC Remedy Action Request System, which is used by most Federal Government Service Desks for managing service requests. Feinstein points out, “Running on Remedy leverages existing investments in Remedy in software, integration and training costs, substantially reducing the lifecycle costs.”

Project Remedies Inc. was started in 1993 to support users of the BMC’s Remedy system.  Soon clients asked for Remedy-based project management functionality in order to handle complex requests, to manage all of these projects in one place and to better understand what each person was doing.  PRI has continued to expand on that original model to create its current suite of products, moving from helpdesk initiated project management to include program management, project portfolio management, project risk management, time and expense tracking across all Remedy tasks, and now cyber remediation management. Since 2010, PRI products also interface with MS Project making it possible to share project management data across the BMC and MS Project platforms.

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